Very reasonably, although the welcome act wsis done by those who were not of the " friends of the "Government," the result of that early struggle in the General Assembly of the Colony, on such a momentous question, was very acceptable to the Colonial Government* as well as to the Ministry, at London and, from that date until thi.-*, .separated from the motives of the majority of the Assembly who had thus rejected the Resolution, and from the other acts of the series, in opposition to the Government, of which

3 Journal of llie Uotue, "DieJovis, 10 ho., A.M., the 26th January, " 1775 ; " Limlennnl-gorenior Colilen to General Gaije, " Xew York 2"Jth " Jany 1773 ; " Hie mme In Hie hjirl of bnrtiiiunth, " Xew Y'ork 1st Feby "1775;" the mime fn tinreriiitr Tniini^ "Xew Y'ork, Ist Feby, 1775 ;" the *' mine to .Ulinintt tiriiven, "Xew Yohk 2Mth Feb, 1775."

< The venerable Lieutenant-governor of the Province was evidently in excellent spirits, from that result, when he w rote the Di^sjiatches to General G ige and the Karl of Dartmouth, which were referred to in the last preceding Xote.

5 " When the question to adopt the Sleasures recommended by the Con- " gress was negatived by a Majority of one only, in this Assembly nf "twenty-six Individuals, the Ministers were in high spirits; and these '• Individuals were then repre.'sented iw 'all .Vnierica.' " -- (Governi^r .Tohostoue's Si>errli in Hie U'lWe'f Coiiiniuiiii, May 15, 1775 -- .\lmon's I'urlimntM- ttiry tieguter^ i., 47;j.)